Enjoy fast, free delivery, exclusive deals, and award-winning movies & TV shows with Prime
Try Prime
and start saving today with fast, free delivery
Amazon Prime includes:
Fast, FREE Delivery is available to Prime members. To join, select "Try Amazon Prime and start saving today with Fast, FREE Delivery" below the Add to Cart button.
Amazon Prime members enjoy:- Cardmembers earn 5% Back at Amazon.com with a Prime Credit Card.
- Unlimited Free Two-Day Delivery
- Streaming of thousands of movies and TV shows with limited ads on Prime Video.
- A Kindle book to borrow for free each month - with no due dates
- Listen to over 2 million songs and hundreds of playlists
- Unlimited photo storage with anywhere access
Important: Your credit card will NOT be charged when you start your free trial or if you cancel during the trial period. If you're happy with Amazon Prime, do nothing. At the end of the free trial, your membership will automatically upgrade to a monthly membership.
Buy new:
$29.39$29.39
Ships from: Amazon Sold by: SEEMAA LCC
Save with Used - Good
$13.35$13.35
FREE delivery July 22 - 29
Ships from: Blue Vase Books Sold by: Blue Vase Books
Download the free Kindle app and start reading Kindle books instantly on your smartphone, tablet, or computer - no Kindle device required.
Read instantly on your browser with Kindle for Web.
Using your mobile phone camera - scan the code below and download the Kindle app.
Follow the authors
OK
Military Aircraft Boneyards Paperback – January 1, 2000
Purchase options and add-ons
- Print length128 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherZenith Pr
- Publication dateJanuary 1, 2000
- Dimensions8 x 0.5 x 10.25 inches
- ISBN-100760308209
- ISBN-13978-0760308202
The Amazon Book Review
Book recommendations, author interviews, editors' picks, and more. Read it now.
Popular titles by this author
Product details
- Publisher : Zenith Pr (January 1, 2000)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 128 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0760308209
- ISBN-13 : 978-0760308202
- Item Weight : 1.3 pounds
- Dimensions : 8 x 0.5 x 10.25 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #3,227,731 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #3,298 in Aerospace Engineering
- #7,048 in Military Aviation History (Books)
- Customer Reviews:
About the authors

"I research and write for my personal enjoyment and educational enrichment. I am honored and humbled by the people I meet who so generously give of their time and share their stories for my projects."
— Nicholas A. Veronico
Nicholas A. Veronico is an independent scholar, historian, and author. Collaborating with a number of today's most respected subject matter experts he has written or co-authored more than 45 books on a wide range of transportation, military, and local history subjects.
Veronico got his start as a freelance writer, then joined "Pacific Flyer" Aviation Newspapers. He went on to serve as editor of "In Flight USA," contributed extensively to "FlyPast" magazine, and subsequently joined "Airliners: The World's Airline Magazine." On a freelance basis, he has contributed to "Air Classics," "Aviation History," "EAA Warbirds," "Warbirds Worldwide," "Warbirds News," "Vintage Aviation News," "Airways," "Airliner World," "Warbird Digest," "Warbirds International," "Classic Wings," and many others.
His career path led to the high-tech industry where he worked for an embedded systems-on-a-chip magazine, "Silicon Strategies." Subsequently, he served as editor of "Gridpoints, the quarterly publication of the NASA Advanced Supercomputing Division," which covered NASA's scientific achievements in computational physics using high performance computers. He later served as the public affairs officer for the prime contractor operating NASA's Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) and as editor of the project's "SOFIA Science" news magazine. During his tenure at SOFIA, he crewed 87 science observing missions on board the flying telescope. Veronico now works as a science and technology writer in the San Francisco Bay area.
As a life-long air racing enthusiast, he partnered with historian Kevin Grantham to chronicle the Cleveland and Reno Air Races in the Raceplane Tech Series -- Vol. I "Griffon-Powered Racing Mustangs" and Vol. II. "Round-Engine Racers: Bearcats and Corsairs" (2000 and 2002, Specialty Press). "F4U Corsair: The Combat, Development, and Racing History of the Corsair" (1994, Motorbooks International) dealt with the subject as well.
Veronico has written extensively on U.S. naval operations in World War II on the sea and in the air. He is the author of "Pearl Harbor Air Raid" (Stackpole Military Photo History, 2016), "Hidden Warships" (Zenith Press, 2015), "Hidden Warbirds: The Epic Stories of Finding, Recovering, and Rebuilding WWII's Lost Aircraft" (Zenith Press, 2013), "Hidden Warbirds II" (Zenith Press, 2013), "Battlestations: American Warships in WWII" (Motorbooks, 2001), a profile of the former Naval Air Station and NACA/NASA facility at "Moffett Field" (Arcadia Publishing, 2006), and "World War II Shipyards of the Bay Area" (Arcadia Publishing, 2007), as well as "F4U Corsair" (Motorbooks, 1994), "Convair PB4Y-2/P4Y-2 Privateer" (Ginter Books, 2012), and with Jim Dunn "High Desert Deployment: Navy Colors on Display at NAS Fallon (Key Books, 2023).
The story of the loss of his grand uncle and 390th Bomb Group B-17G “Decatur Deb” formed the nucleus of the book that became “Bloody Skies: U.S. Eighth Air Force Battle Damage in World War II” (Stackpole Military Photo Series, 2014). His interest in World War II aviation, and the subsequent disposal of America’s aerial armada to the present day, led to “Military Aircraft Boneyards” (with A. Kevin Grantham and Scott Thompson, 2000, Motorbooks Intl), “AMARG: America's Military Aircraft Boneyard” (with Ron Strong, 2010, Specialty Press), and “Boneyard Nose Art: U.S. Military Aircraft Markings and Artwork” (with Jim Dunn and Ron Strong, Stackpole Military Photo Series, 2013), and "AMARG: America's Strategic Military Aircraft Reserve" (with Jim Dunn, Key Books, 2023).
As a teenager, his parents took him to various locations in Mexico to see the artwork of Diego Rivera, and each morning when he entered the hallways of Will Rogers Junior High School in Long Beach, California, he was greeted by Olinka Hrdy’s WPA Federal Art Project mural "Deep Sea Magic." This early exposure to art from the 1930s formed the basis for his interest later in life of Depression-era art. To that end, Veronico has co-authored "Depression-era Murals of the Bay Area" (Arcadia Publishing, 2014) and "Depression-era Sculpture of the Bay Area" (Arcadia Publishing, 2017). He has co-authored other local history books, including "Images of America: San Carlos" (Arcadia Publishing, 2007), "Images of America: Redwood City" (Arcadia Publishing, 2008), "Redwood City: Then and Now" (Arcadia Publishing, 2010), and "Images of America: Menlo Park" (Arcadia Publishing, 2015).
In 1995 he started wreckchasing – an online community for enthusiasts interested in locating, documenting, and preserving historic aircraft wrecks. He hosted the first symposium for those interested in aviation archaeology and wreckchasing in 2009.
He served as the lead scriptwriter for "Scrapping Aircraft Giants," a TV documentary by Daurg Productions for The Discovery Channel. In addition, he appeared on the TV series "Life After People" in the 2010 episode "Take Me To Your Leader," providing history and commentary on the Hunters Point Naval Shipyard near San Francisco, California. He was also in front of the camera for the TV series documentary "UFOs Declassified" where he discussed military aspects of the February 1942 "Battle for Los Angeles."
Recently, the Military Writer's Society of America recognized Veronico's history of the U.S. Navy Blue Angels flight demonstration team and his book on military aircraft storage (AMARG) with distinguished book awards, and his update of Robert F. Dorr's "Air Force One," now titled "Air Force One: The Aircraft of the Modern Presidency," received a Silver Medal.

Discover more of the author’s books, see similar authors, read author blogs and more
Customer reviews
Customer Reviews, including Product Star Ratings help customers to learn more about the product and decide whether it is the right product for them.
To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Instead, our system considers things like how recent a review is and if the reviewer bought the item on Amazon. It also analyzed reviews to verify trustworthiness.
Learn more how customers reviews work on Amazon-
Top reviews
Top reviews from the United States
There was a problem filtering reviews right now. Please try again later.
The reason was simple. Following World War I the American aircraft industry took a nose dive thanks to the extreme numbers of surplus military aircraft surviving the war. “For post-World War II planning, it was thus perceived that the sale of surplus planes and engines at extremely low prices was a threat to the national aircraft industry, and that a large inventory of surplus tactical aircraft would make it difficult to obtain authorization to purchase new equipment.”
With historical hindsight it seems odd that in the middle of the war, when victory was still far from assured, our government was already planning on post-war reductions of forces. Of course, the boys in training would have no idea of what was happening behind their backs. They had to soldier on with what had been given them.
Reviewed by Peter Stekel, author of, Final Flight: the Mystery of a WWII Plane Crash and the Frozen Airmen in the High Sierra.
Coverage includes the big yards - such as Chino/Ontario, Kingman, Altus, Davis-Monthan and Litchfield Park - as well as individual aircraft. A job really well done.






